Hi Dave On Thursday 31 March 2005 03:27, David Teigland wrote: > ...the mechanism used to export the locking API to user space is > pretty inconsequential. We're doing reads/writes on a misc device at > the moment (used through libdlm of course.) Going through an fs > might be better but I'm not sure why. Please stick with the socket connection on the misc device. It is efficient and simple. If somebody wants to write a pseudo filesystem for it they can go through the socket. Regards, Daniel